Dear Compatriots:
We have an exciting program for
next year which you wo't wnat to miss. We willbe roughly following the
corresponding months 150 years ago in 1862. All are invited to come and
bring anyone else who may be interested or had an ancestor involved:
21 January..........Lee-Jackson Banquet...............Dr.
Harry Reeder
This will be held 7PM, Saturday evening at the Homewood
Diner, 126 Oxmoor Road
We welcome this gifted and influential speaker and his wife
to a fine buffet. Dr. Reeder is Senior Pastor at Briarwood Presbyterian
Church (PCA).
14 February.......Constitution of the
CSA...............Jacob Mauldin, Esq.
13 March...........The Battle of Hampton Roads.......Ken
Johnston
Ken (or his proxy) is the Acting Director of the Civil War
Naval Museum, Colubus, GA and will feature some exhibits as he speaks on the
clach between the CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor.
10 April..............The Battle of
Shiloh......................Jim Darden (Prior Camp Officer)
08 May..............The Occupation of New Orleans....Dr.
John H. Killian
Dr. Killian is a past Division CDR, Senior Pastor of
Maytown Baptist Church.
12 June.............CSS
Alabama.........................Past SCVALADIV CDR Leonard Wilson
10 July..............The Coast Guard in the WBTS.......Sean
Shallows
Sean is a Birmingham native who founded the Coast Guard
Historical Society.
14 August..........7
Days....................................LTC Brent Goodwin, USA(RET)
Brent is the head of the Birmingham Gun Show who recently
invited us to set up a recruiting table.
11 September.....Battle of
Sharpsburg(?)...................Dr. Harry Reeder
09 October.........Battle of
Perryville..........................Al Byrd
13 November......Corinth
Campaign..........................Past CDR Hank Arnold
11 December......Battle of
Fredericksburg.................CDR Larry Muse
We meet at the New Merkle House, Vestavia Hills, Dolly
Ridge Road-off US 280
with the exception of the Lee-Jackson banquet at the
Homewood Diner. Please join us as we honor our ancestors and learn what
they faced in this Sesquicentennial Year of 1862.
Your Humble & Obedient Servant,
Rick Price, MD
Acting 1st LT CDR,
Fighting Joe Wheeler Camp
SCV
